Crystal River current., 1887-07-16
STATE NEWS.

The jury in the Gilpin divorce suit
have decided for the plaintiff.
A sixteen-year old boy was run over
by the cars at La Junta and killed.
A number Of Denver colored people
are thinking of emigratIng to Liberia.
Sterling was grounded up by a
gang of twenty-five cowboys last week.
The mercury got up to 10 degrees
In the shade in Grand Junction last week.
An extensive forest fire has been
raging on the head of Brush creek near
Aspen.
There are 4sO postoffices in Colo
RADIO, of which thirty are of the Presiden-
tial rank.
The ore reduction works of Fang &
Metz, located at Denver were burned last
week. Loss, $4,000.
The wife of Hon. j. b. Belford up
holds political prohibition by a paper in
this weeks Challenge.
A workman at the Pueblo Smelter
fell into pot Of molten Stag the other day
and was horribly burned.
Grasshoppers are very numerous on
the mesa near Pueblo. They are not doing
any particular damage.
Over million and half dollars
worth of precious metals were handled at
the Denver mint last year.
1t will take two hundred car loads of
iron to build the bridges needed on the
Midland near Buena Vista.
The tunnel now being bored on the
Glenwood Springs branch of the d. e.. r.
G. railroad will be $50 feet long.
1t is said that Mr.. Gould will build
ITS dwelling houses in Pueblo for the use
OF the employees of the Missouri Pacific.
Only twenty-five miles of track re-
main to be laid on the Midland before Col
orado Springs and Leadville will be united.
The Denver base ball club beat the
Omaha club three straight games last week,
In the last game the Omaha's did not get
run.
Four hundred and sixty-five teams
are at work on the Colorado & Wyoming
railroad, within a radius of ten miles of
Sterling.
The residents Of Archuleta county
are greatly excited over several large dis
coveries of petroleum which have been
made In that section.
1t is said that several of the Midland
tunnels near Manitou will have to be en-
larged before they can get their large Sleep
ers through them.
vein of coal thirteen feet thick has
been found at Louisville at a depth of Us
feet. A shaft seven and half by sixteen
feet will be sunk at once.
The real estate transfers in Denver
for the first six weeks of this year were sls,-
156,33s Is against s4,075,676 40 for the cor
responding period in 1886.
An oil refinery ut Pueblo is one of
the possibilities in the near future. If it
is built pipe line will be laid from the oil
fields at Florence to that city.
The Akron school district returns an
assessed valuation Of nearly q 900, 600 of
property. For a district only fifteen
months old this will do very we'll.
The tramps and hold-ups who have
been infesting Denver for some time past
seem to be scattering through the farming
districts. where number of outrages have
been reported.
The Beaver country in the eastern
part Of AApahoe County contains now
nearly 5000 population, and Abbott. the
principal town. is having rapid and SUBJ
stantial growth.
Ex-Attorney-General Thomas ha. Sc
cured mandamus against State Treasurer
Breene to compel him to disclose his meth
cd OF paying State warrants. Mr.. Thomas
claims that he shows favoritism.
A COW lying on the track of the
South Park road near Bear Creek Junction
threw the engine of the Leadville express.
which left Denver Monday evening, from
the track, seriously wounding the fireman.
Mr.. Frank E. Dacons has purchased
the Sterling News and changed the name
70 Logan County Democrat. Mr.. Dacons
Is probably the youngest editor in the
State-not being twenty-ons years old yet.
The Colorado Coal and Iron Com.
pany intend to erect forty new houses on
their land adjoining Walsenburg. 1t is re-
ported that they will have 1000 men work.
Ing in their mines in that vicinity before
the first Of next year.
The Denver postoffice is now under
civil Service regulations and the post
master finds dif1iculty in obtaining carriers
who can pass the necessary examinations
and who are willing to work for the small
salary paid that class of officials.
The acreage Of grain, hay and alfal-
IA being grown In Arkansas valley coun-
ties this year Is double that grown in any
previous year In the history of the State.
This section Of Colorado is certainly having
an agricultural boom.-Pueblo Chieftain.
1t is rumored that the government